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Does owning a gTLD entitle you to use the top of your namespace for anything other than NS/SOA records? Put another way, if I'm Microsoft, can I put my website
by ejdyksen 14y ago
Does owning a gTLD entitle you to use the top of your namespace for anything other than NS/SOA records?
Put another way, if I'm Microsoft, can I put my website at http://microsoft http://microsoft? Or do I have to use http://www.microsoft http://www.microsoft?
I've looked to see if there is a policy from ICANN on this, but I can't find one. Historically, TLDs did not themselves point to hosts (or have other things like MX or TXT records).
- icebraining 14y agoSome ccTLDs do have A records, though, like http://ac http://ac
- franze 14y agogreat example!!! i just tried to submit http://ac/ to hackernews. guess what? it didn't work.
- Sami_Lehtinen 14y agoYeah, it's common to have bad url or email address validation. Many sites do not accept short email addresses at all. As example a @bc.de (space is there intentionally). When it becomes a @ bc then it's interesting to see how many sites will fail with that.
- because 14y agoWhat browser are you using? This worked in my browser.
- Cyranix 14y agoI believe that TLDs with A records should resolve correctly if you add a period to the end, as in "http://ac. http://ac.. As I recall, this came up when the "http://to. http://to. link shortener [no longer available] was discussed a while ago.
- ajasmin 14y agoWith the current trend of combining the address and search bar I doubt browsers will let you go to e.g. http://lol http://lol when you type "lol" in the bar. In fact I just checked that typing "ac" in the Chrome omnibox makes a Google search for "ac" as I would expect. So the value of having an A record on a TLD is limited. Edit: Somehow I missed the bar on top of the search results that says "Did you mean to go to http://ac http://ac " so there's some value after all.